Known for her writing of picturesque music, Sharneisha Joyner is an American-born composer, conductor, and flutist. 

The recipient of a Master of Music in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music, Sharneisha is an emerging composer whose works have received international performances and recognition. 

As an RCM Scholar, Joyner has had her works featured in the RCM Screen Composers Showcase, conducted film score recording sessions, and collaborated with over a dozen unique and emerging directors from all over the United Kingdom and the United States. Her studies with composers Vasco Hexel, Dimitri Scarlato, and Enrica Sciandrone have strengthened her vivid composition techniques and clarified the voice that her compositions share. 

Joyner’s music was recently credited as a finalist for Best Original Score in the 2024 New York Animation Film Festival for her score in Floccinoci and Tip, produced by Fountain Pen Productions. 2025 has featured Sharneisha’s works, which have been premiered at 3 different National conferences and 2 music festivals across the United States. 

Future projects include an upcoming wind band commission consortium opening in October of 2025, a chamber music commission consortium in 2026, and her first posting as an honor clinic clinician. 

10 Questions to Know Me

  • There's always some variation of this question and it's always THE HARDEST TO ANSWER.

    Jurassic Park

    Spirited Away

    Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

    **my opinion on these is subject to change every 5 minutes.

  • I love a great horn feature or a bombastic low brass feature!

  • My first concert (non-classical) was to see All Time Low my senior year! It was such a blast!

  • When I was a freshman in college, in one of my courses, we had an open discussion in class where the goal was for each person to name a composer as we went around the room, no repeats. People were naming these prolific composers like Dvorak, Bach, Mahler, etc. and I couldn't relate because I was a band kid who didn't get to play in orchestras. I just started naming my favorite band composers as people began running out of the main classical composers. From that experience, I learned that even though my realm of experience may be different no matter where I go, my experience still MATTERS and having a different perspective could be would saves the day.

  • I'm a HUGE football fan, so if I could ever do one of the shorts of player intros, to give some epic background music, I'd be so thrilled!

  • My friends can attest to this, I watch SmackDown. For some reason, whenever I play SmackDown reruns, my creative juices just start flowing again and I complete whatever project I'm on. Absolutely no clue why this is!

  • Wearing hoodies with shorts when it is actually cold outside. What internal body temperature are you trying to achieve?!

  • The entire Hannah Montana Discography. If I could have attended specifically a Hannah Montana concert, I'd be screaming every word perfectly.

  • When I was young, my family used to call me "Sha-Nay-Nay" after a TV character. It drove me absolutely crazy at the time, but now I look back at that so fondly.

  • Video games, mud mask, tidying my room, composing for my personal projects, most importantly, not having to exit my home AT ALL.

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